On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:00:42PM +0100, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > I just found this and thought you people might be interested. > > http://mate-desktop.org/ > > MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 desktop, forked about a year ago. It is the > default desktop in Linux Mint 14. > > I personaly don't use GNOME and have not tried MATE so I can not tell > anything about it's usability or usefullness, but I am sure there are > people here who can benefit from it. > I tried a little of it last week, to see if I could use it to replace some of gnome-3 on my desktop (note: I only ever built gnome for a few applications, I can't comment on the whole environment).
I started by taking a note of: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building to see the preferred order, but in practice I was only looking to replace gucharmap, evince, gcalctool. I've built the following (all ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr) : mate-common-1.5.0 mate-doc-utils-1.5.0 libIDL-0.8.14 [ from gnome! ] - this is in BLFS : for me, --disable-static gets rid of the unwanted static libs. mate-corba-1.4.0 [ couldn't see a 1.5.0 version ] meeds --disable-static. mate-conf-1.4.0 [ couldn't see a 1.5.0 version ] needs --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-static. mate-character-map from git : there is a reason this is only in git and not in the releases: on (at least) x86_64 it builds, but it segfaults when run. So, not useful at the moment. Needs --sysconfdir=/etc. mate-icon-theme-1.5.0 mate-desktop-1.5.3 - needs --sysconfdir=/etc and --disable-static. libmatekeyring-1.5.0 with --disable-static. I've no idea why mate-document-viewer needs this, nor what else I would need to store a key (I guess it is for password-protected PDFs). mate-document-viewer-1.5.0 : needs --disable-caja [ the nautilus replacement ] for me, and also --disable-static. a.k.a. atril - even the old gnome-2 changelogs have been altered to reference atril instead of evince on every past version, which seems odd but was perhaps required by the gnome devs. mate-calc-1.5.0 like gcalctool in 2.32 : i.e. it had already lost the option to store values in memory, but it looks nicer than the gnome-3.4 version IMHO. Both mate-document-viewer and mate-calc work ok, and I'll be including them in my current (LFS-7.2) build, trying to minimise gnome-3. BUT, various options don't work, and in particular there is no 'help', just a red bar. Actually, looking at that, it's trying (at least in atril) to find /local/share/doc/mate/atril/atril.html when in my case I have /usr/share/doc/mate/atril/atril.html : creating a symlink from /local/share/doc/mate to /usr/share/doc/mate does fix the help on atril [ clearly it's not the right fix, but probably a sed somewhere will solve it ] but mate-calc looks as if it is still invoking yelp : The URI ‘ghelp:mate-calc’ does not point to a valid page. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
